Antecedent mechanisms of crime

Abstract

Crime has always been a topical issue in society. Because crime can cause significant damage and harm to individuals and groups, researchers have researched the antecedents of crime to reduce the crime at its source. This paper reviews previous research from individual, environmental, and social perspectives and makes suggestions for future research. At the individual level, researchers have found that the MAOA gene is associated with criminal behavior from the perspective of genetic polymorphism and that criminal behavior is hereditary; in addition, antisocial personality is closely related to crime. At the environmental level, parenting styles and traditional education in the family environment can lead to delinquency. Poor parenting styles can cause individuals to develop poor attachment patterns, leading to sexual delinquency. Community organization and order are associated with delinquency among young people at the social level. In addition, social media coverage of violent crime-related information gives stimulus to aggression leading to crime, and the researcher used information processing theory to explain this behavioral arousal process. The results of previous studies are comprehensive, but some of the results are controversial, which requires a combination of multidisciplinary and modern technological tools to strictly control the variables and thus design more rigorous experiments to produce more accurate results, which can effectively reduce the incidence of crime.